A Welshman flew a 'plane in the reign of the emperor Tiberius - you can see the evidence yourself - there's a coin with a primitive 'plane on it and the date on the coin says (in Roman numerals naturally) "TIBERIVS IMPERATOR" and on the obverse "LXVI B.C."
Regards JayJAy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 March 2004 18:12 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: [OT] Airplane flights and stuff was Re: Optimisation ? The Russians flew an aircraft in 1857! No no the Japanese had one flying in 1831! So? The Chinese flew one in 731 In a message dated 3/26/2004 9:10:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I knew this!!! I believe there was also a New Zealander, Richard > Pearce, who is eye witnessed to have flown in March 1903. Check out: > http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/pearse.html > > At 03:02 AM 03/26/2004, you wrote: > >Did you know the Americans weren't even the first to build a > >successful aeroplane? > > > >The first aircraft built that flew successfully (note my strange word > >order :-) was built in 1896, in England. > > > >Unfortunately, it had to be rebuilt, and the first > successful flight was > >(iirc) 1912. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
